Download or read book Using a Socio cultural Framework to Evaluate Farmland Preservation Policy Success in Maryland written by Richard Anthony Russo and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Southeastern Geographer written by David M. Cochran Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents for Volume 52, Number 1 (Spring 2012) Cover Art A Section of the Kansas City Southern in Hattiesburg, Mississippi David M. Cochran, Jr. Introduction David M. Cochran, Jr. and Carl A. Reese Part I: Papers Spatial and Temporal Variations in West Virginia's Precipitation, 1931–2000 James Leonard and Kevin Law The Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper Individual Fishing Quota Program in Florida: Perceptions and Implications Kamal Alsharif and Nathan Miller Reflections in the Water: Society and Recreational Facilities, a Case Study of Public Swimming Pools in Mississippi P. Caleb Smith Local Food Initiatives in Tobacco Transitions of the Southeastern United States Richard A. Russo A GIS-Based Football Stadium Evacuation Model Joslyn J. Zale and Bandana Kar Part II: Geographical Notes The Origin and Appreciation of Savannah, Georgia's Historic City Squares Louis De Vorsey Part III: Reviews Louisiana Place Names of Indian Origin, A Collection of Words William A. Read, edited by George M. Riser Reviewed by Andy Hilburn The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge Edited by John Agnew and David N. Livingstone Reviewed by J. O. Joby Bass

Download or read book Edible Identities Food as Cultural Heritage written by Ronda L. Brulotte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food - its cultivation, preparation and communal consumption - has long been considered a form of cultural heritage. A dynamic, living product, food creates social bonds as it simultaneously marks off and maintains cultural difference. In bringing together anthropologists, historians and other scholars of food and heritage, this volume closely examines the ways in which the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of food is used to create identity claims of 'cultural heritage' on local, regional, national and international scales. Contributors explore a range of themes, including how food is used to mark insiders and outsiders within an ethnic group; how the same food's meanings change within a particular society based on class, gender or taste; and how traditions are 'invented' for the revitalization of a community during periods of cultural pressure. Featuring case studies from Europe, Asia and the Americas, this timely volume also addresses the complex processes of classifying, designating, and valorizing food as 'terroir,' 'slow food,' or as intangible cultural heritage through UNESCO. By effectively analyzing food and foodways through the perspectives of critical heritage studies, this collection productively brings two overlapping but frequently separate theoretical frameworks into conversation.

Download or read book Factors Associated with the Adoption of an Innovative Agricultural Land Preservation Policy by Maryland Farmland Owners written by David G. Pitt and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Urban fringe Landowners Preferences for Particular Farmland Preservation Programs written by Qing Bai and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmland preservation policies and programs have been in place at the national, state, and local levels since the 1970s in the United States. Features in landowners' stated preferences for these programs are critical in evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency in designing and implementing these policy programs. Quite a few behavioral studies have already been done in this field. However, most of these studies were associated with an implicit assumption--Independent and Identical Distribution (IID) in setting up choice models. This assumption not only eliminates the variation in the personal preference for a farmland preservation program among individuals, but also denies the interdependence among an individual landowner's preferences for several preservation programs. Technically, this assumption introduces bias and inefficiency into modeling. Without convincible justification, the involvement of IID could lead to biased model estimates and distort the interpretation. Unfortunately, such justification is barely mentioned and/or addressed at all in these studies. People are different, so do their preferences. Moreover, personal preferences for several preservation programs are simultaneously constrained by one's social-economic context. With such acknowledgements, both the variation in the personal preference for a farmland program and the interdependences among preferences for several programs are particular of the interest in this research. A modeling framework centering on a system of heteroscedastic probit models is calibrated to achieve unbiasedness and efficiency in implementing and evaluating preservation programs. A dataset from the state-level urban-fringe landowners' survey in 2001 and 2002 collected by the research team in American Farmland Trust (AFT) is used in this research. The survey covers fifty metropolitan counties in five states, i.e., Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Texas, and California. 1617 landowners were contacted either by phone calls or by mail. Farmland preservation programs concerned in the survey includes the agricultural zoning, the Purchase of Development Rights, the Purchase of Conservation Easements in California, and the use-value taxation programs. The personal preference for a preservation program is expected to be influenced by owners' social-economic circumstances, farmland characteristics, objectives of land ownership, and local social-economic conditions. Significant findings of related factors in shaping a landowner's preference for a preservation program from literature are referred for its generalization meanings. The result shows that the modeling framework based on a system of heteroscedastic probit models succeeds in explicitly capturing variations in and interdependence among personal preferences for several farmland preservation programs. The modeling framework can be generalized regardless of the geographic settings, i.e., state-level and/or county-level. The significance and magnitude of an individual factor effecting on one's preference for a preservation program, however, cannot be generalized across geographic boundaries, i.e., they are more of localized. Meanwhile, findings of the effect of individual factors are not precisely consistent with those from other studies. Suggestions for effective and efficient policy implementation are derived from findings of effects of individual factors on personal preferences for preservation programs. The dissertation consists of five chapters. The first two briefly describe the history of farmland preservation programs and the necessity of policy evaluation in the United States. Chapter three mainly puts efforts in describing and comparing features of available discrete choice models in dealing with complicated individual behaviors, and then a desired modeling framework is carefully described in details. Chapter four reports the model calibration process and model estimates with empirical data. Propositions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the policy implementation are also delivered here. The final chapter makes conclusion about the generalization of findings and gives hints for the future study.

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Download or read book Migration of Farm Workers to Rural Scotland written by Dr. Iqbal Md Mostafa and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The migration of farm workers to rural Scotland is an important issue that relates to the existing theories and research in contemporary equality and cultural capital studies, particularly in regard to the exploration of how and in what ways cultural capital theory can be addressed to study migrants equality claims, the examination of how complex equality models can be used for inquiry into the reinforcement of inequalities in cultural capital and the accumulative effects of such inequality. In particular, the experiences of East European migrant farm workers challenge theoretical perspectives that apply a) an approach of equality claim from cultural capital, which emphasize b) equal right to recognition, and therefore, c) focus on entitlement to equal protection against any discrimination. This book, therefore, offers us a way to explore these experiences with a call for attention to be paid to a large number of East European migrant farm workers who have migrated to rural Scotland to work in low paid jobs marked with low skills. Unlike majority members of a population, migrant farm workers often give up their cultural capital and take up low skilled jobs in order to gain opportunities for success in other spheres in their lives. Critiquing such a trade-off approach, if the sphere of migrants cultural capital is invaded and the cultural capital of local workers (native) is acknowledged, migrants are in a vulnerable position. I also argue although migrants achievements are devalued, and their substantive equality remains unprotected, their claim from cultural capital is relatively strong and valid to manage. The more vulnerable a migrants cultural capital is in terms of recognition and protection, the stronger his or her claim from cultural capital will be. Under the theoretical framework, I argue that if equal recognitions of cultural capital are not actively ensured, this is highly likely to produce increased claims to equality.

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Download or read book Government Support to Agricultural Insurance written by Olivier Mahul and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments in developing countries have been increasingly involved in the support of agricultural (crop and livestock) insurance programs in recent years. In their attempts to design and implement agricultural insurance, they have sought technical and financial assistance from the international community and particularly from the World Bank. One of the recurrent requests from governments regards international experience with agricultural insurance, not only in developed countries, where in some cases agricultural insurance has been offered for more than a century, but also in middleand low-income countries. Governments are particularly interested in the technical, operational, financial, and institutional aspects of public support to agricultural insurance. 'Government Support to Agricultural Insurance' informs public and private decision makers involved in agricultural insurance about recent developments, with a particular focus on middle- and low-income countries. It presents an updated picture of the spectrum of institutional frameworks and experiences with agricultural insurance, ranging from countries in which the public sector provides no support to those in which governments heavily subsidize agricultural insurance. This analysis is based on a survey conducted by the World Bank s agricultural insurance team in 2008 in 65 developed and developing countries. Drawing on the survey results, the book identifies some key roles governments can play to support the development of sustainable, affordable, and cost-effective agricultural insurance programs.

Download or read book Tropical Fruit Tree Diversity written by Bhuwon Sthapit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmers have developed a range of agricultural practices to sustainably use and maintain a wide diversity of crop species in many parts of the world. This book documents good practices innovated by farmers and collects key reviews on good practices from global experts, not only from the case study countries but also from Brazil, China and other parts of Asia and Latin America. A good practice for diversity is defined as a system, organization or process that, over time and space, maintains, enhances and creates crop genetic diversity, and ensures its availability to and from farmers and other users. Drawing on experiences from a UNEP-GEF project on "Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wild and Cultivated Tropical Fruit Tree Diversity for Promoting Livelihoods, Food Security and Ecosystem Services", with case studies from India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, the authors show how methods for identifying good practices are still evolving and challenges in scaling-up remain. They identify key principles effective as a strategy for mainstreaming good practice into development efforts. Few books draw principles and lessons learned from good practices. This book fills this gap by combining good practices from the research project on tropical fruit trees with chapters from external experts to broaden its scope and relevance.

Download or read book Preservation and the New Data Landscape written by Erica Avrami and published by Issues in Preservation Policy. This book was released on 2019 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how enhancing the collection, accuracy, and management of data can aid in identifying vulnerable neighborhoods, understanding the role of older buildings, and planning sustainable growth. For preservation to play a dynamic and inclusive role, policy must evolve beyond designation and regulation and use evidence-based research.

Download or read book Local Food Systems Concepts Impacts and Issues written by Steve Martinez and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive overview of local food systems explores alternative definitions of local food, estimates market size and reach, describes the characteristics of local consumers and producers, and examines early indications of the economic and health impacts of local food systems. Defining ¿local¿ based on marketing arrangements, such as farmers selling directly to consumers at regional farmers¿ markets or to schools, is well recognized. Statistics suggest that local food markets account for a small, but growing, share of U.S. agricultural production. For smaller farms, direct marketing to consumers accounts for a higher percentage of their sales than for larger farms. Charts and tables.

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Biodiversity written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 5485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 7-volume Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Second Edition maintains the reputation of the highly regarded original, presenting the most current information available in this globally crucial area of research and study. It brings together the dimensions of biodiversity and examines both the services it provides and the measures to protect it. Major themes of the work include the evolution of biodiversity, systems for classifying and defining biodiversity, ecological patterns and theories of biodiversity, and an assessment of contemporary patterns and trends in biodiversity. The science of biodiversity has become the science of our future. It is an interdisciplinary field spanning areas of both physical and life sciences. Our awareness of the loss of biodiversity has brought a long overdue appreciation of the magnitude of this loss and a determination to develop the tools to protect our future. Second edition includes over 100 new articles and 226 updated articles covering this multidisciplinary field— from evolution to habits to economics, in 7 volumes The editors of this edition are all well respected, instantly recognizable academics operating at the top of their respective fields in biodiversity research; readers can be assured that they are reading material that has been meticulously checked and reviewed by experts Approximately 1,800 figures and 350 tables complement the text, and more than 3,000 glossary entries explain key terms